User Experience is one of the most challenging and least understood aspects of creating a product...and yet it will make or break your product. This deck is from the LUXr 1-day workshop, UX for Lean Startups.
Join Tristan Kromer (@trikro), Master Coach and Co-Founder at LUXr, to learn Lean Startup methods that help you both make the right product, and make your product right.
2. Ask yourself:
What 3 assumptions about your customers
do you have that, if you are wrong, your
business will fail.
Write down 3.
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3. Who’s in the room?
• Name
• Company
• Context (startup, enterprise, consultancy)
• Role (biz/product, developer, design)
• 1 of your assumptions
• 1 weirdness / awesomeness
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7. This is not...
A class on how to
(how do you know itʼs awesome?)
produce an awesome UI
A session on making (how do you know these arenʼt
production wireframes or a waste of valuable time?)
photoshop comps
A “perfect approach” or (100s of entrepreneurs have
used these techniques to define
a rigid point of view on their own unique Great UX.)
Great UX.
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13. Disclaimer
I am not an expert in your business.
Only you can be the expert
in your business.
My job is:
• to ask the unasked questions;
• to challenge assumptions;
• and give you tools to succeed.
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14. Today we’ll cover...
I. Lean + UX Fundamentals
II. Three Lean UX experiments:
1. Get to Know your Customer
2. Act on Customer Needs
3. Measure What Matters
III. Bring it all together
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15. What is this stuff?!?!
I : Lean UX Fundamentals
What is Lean Startup?
What is UX?
What is UX for Lean Startups?
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21. Don’t go to market,!
maximize learning"
Steve Blank introduced
Don’t go to market,!
“Customer Development”
maximize learning"
in ~2006.
The big idea...
Learn" Execute"
P/MF"
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Learn" Execute"
23. Eric Ries wrote
a blog post on
Sept 8, 2008
titled “The Lean
Startup.”
The big idea...
+ +
make products reduce
incremental
customers
want releases waste
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25. The Influence of Agile
“The courage to speak truths,
pleasant or unpleasant, fosters
communication and trust.
“The courage to discard failing
solutions and seek new ones
encourages simplicity.
“The courage to seek real,
concrete answers creates
feedback.”
—Kent Beck
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31. User Experience is...
A personʼs perceptions and responses that
result from the use or anticipated use of a
product, service or system.
product UI UX
via Ed Lea: http://design.org/blog/difference-between-ux-and-ui-subtleties-explained-cereal
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32. User Experience is...
A personʼs perceptions and responses that
result from the use or anticipated use of a
product, service or system.
product UI UX
via Ed Lea: http://design.org/blog/difference-between-ux-and-ui-subtleties-explained-cereal
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33. UX brings 10* years
of experience, methods, and
patterns of work.
*20, 30, 50 years
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34. UX people are EXPERTS at “getting out of the building”
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35. UX == Customer Discovery
People, their
goals & needs
Sketches and
prototypes
Interactions and
flows
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36. Design > UI THINK
MAKE
CHECK
Users
1. I need...
why
what Needs 2. I want...
3. My goal is...
how
Business thinking goes here
Mary can...
BUILD
Uses MEASURE
LEARN
Features
Sketches, wireframes, pixels
This Week
Prototypes
User Stories
Themed Releases
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37. UX cycles == Lean Startup learning loops
THINK
MAKE
Reduc
cycle e
time,
not
build
time
CHECK
Generative Research • Ideation • Mental models • Participatory Design • Contextual Inquiry • Concept Maps •
THINK Behavior Models • Test Results • Competitive Analysis
Personas • Sketches • Prototypes • Wireframes • Value Prop • Landing View • Hypotheses • Comps • Deployed Code
MAKE
Evaluative Research • A/B Testing • Site Analytics • Usability Testing • Funnel Analysis • Interruptive Surveys
CHECK
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38. II : Three Lean Team Activies
1. Get to Know your Customers
2. Act on Customer Needs
3. Measure What Matters
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39. Today’s Challenge
Hypothesis
We believe that modern families would benefit
from having better ways to keep up with tasks,
and are willing to pay for a better way to
coordinate tasks with other family members,
friends and neighbors.
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40. 1
Get to Know Your
Customers
(Customer Development Interviews)
Types of Research
Personas
How to Interview
Practice Interview
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41. User Research
quant qual
• Contextual Inquiry
(Byer & Holzblatt)
• Mental Models (Indi Young)
Generative surveys
•Interviews
•Starbucks
Optimizely• •Hallway usability
Analytics• •remote
Evaluative A/B Testing•
Usability
Key Metrics•
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42. User Research
quant qual
Generative Interviews
Evaluative
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43. Customer Interviews
* Identify who you want to talk to.
* Articulate your hypotheses.
* Craft a topic map for the session.
* Jot down conversation prompts.
* Have the conversation
* Debrief!
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47. {Activity}
Make a persona
Portrait
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48. {Activity}
Make a persona
Demographics
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49. {Activity}
Make a persona
Behaviors
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50. {Activity}
Make a persona
Needs & Goals
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51. {Activity}
Bring it together
Discuss & create
a unified persona
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52. {check}
3 checks
* Does this sound like a person who could exist?
If no, make adjustments.
* Is this an actual person you know?
If yes, make adjustments.
* Is the persona respectful?
If no, make adjustments or re-do. Contempt is not helpful.
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53. Customer Interviews
! Identify who you want to talk to.
! Articulate your hypotheses.
* Craft a topic map for the session.
* Jot down conversation prompts.
* Have the conversation
* Debrief!
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55. Topic Map
mobile/
feeling
internet
overwhelmed
habits?
keeping
everything
working
last time
they got help
(house
cleaner) personal commute
time
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56. {Activity}
Add a topic
mobile/
internet
habits?
keeping
everything
working
last time
they got help
(house
cleaner) personal commute
time
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57. Customer Interviews
! Identify who you want to talk to.
! Articulate your hypotheses.
! Craft a topic map for the session.
* Jot down conversation prompts.
* Have the conversation
* Debrief!
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58. Conversation Prompts
“Have you ever had ________ experience?”
“Can you tell me the story about that?”
“And then what happened?”
“Why [or how] did you do that?”
“What did you love [or hate] about that?”
“If you could wave a magic wand, what would
it be like?”
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59. {Activity}
Brainstorm a question
“Have you ever had
__________________________
experience?”
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60. Customer Interviews
! Identify who you want to talk to.
! Articulate your hypotheses.
! Craft a topic map for the session.
! Jot down conversation prompts.
* Have the conversation
* Debrief!
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61. During the Interview
DO
• Take notes
• Smile
• Ask open-ended questions
• Get their story
• Shut up and listen
DONʼT
• Talk about your product
• Ask about future behavior
• Sell
• Ask leading questions
• Talk much
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62. {Activity}
Practice an interview
1 interviewer + 1 interviewee
note-takers
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63. After the Interview: Debrief
DUMP (5min, solo)
1 idea per sticky
“What I heard”
“What I saw”
“What stood out”
SORT (10min, team)
Collect similar items
Label groups
Stack duplicates
Note trends and exceptions
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66. 2
Act on
Customer Needs
(Developing product and interface ideas)
Sketching
6-Up Uses
Dot Voting
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67. Remember this?
Users
1. BLAH
why
what Needs 2. BLAH
3. BLAH
how
(INSERT BUSINESS THINKING HERE)
Mary can...
Uses
Features
(CREATE SKETCHES,
WIREFRAMES & PIXELS)
This Week
User Stories
Themed Releases
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68. BLAH BLAH BLAH
BLAH BLAH BLAH
BLAH BLAH BLAH
BLAH BLAH BLAH
A person BLAH BLAH
and their
needs
Your
business
vision
why
USES:
what
What can
how Mary do with
your product?
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69. 6 Uses
An illustration that shows “What will they DO with this product?” It
intersects user needs with business vision to show the consumer value
proposition. This informs what features are most important.
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76. {Organize!}
Post your persona, 2 uses
and 3-4 features on the
wall. (off to the side)
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77. What you have now
Who is our user What can a user How will they
and what are their do with our do that?
needs & goals? product?
Persona 6-up uses Limited features to
support the uses
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81. Top questions
Will people use it?
Why wonʼt people use it?
Whatʼs wrong with this?
How could I make this better?
How can I improve conversion?
Are we making progress?
Do people like this?
Are these results good?
Why do people do that?
Did we do the right thing?
Why is there dropoff?
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82. User Research
quantitative qualitative
generate surveys user interviews
ideas
a/b testing
evaluate analytics usability testing
product KPIs
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85. {Activity}
Brainstorm measures
(from features)
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86. {Activity}
Divide into 2 piles:
less more
important important
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87. {Activity}
As a team, get to 5
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88. {Activity}
Check your metrics
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89. Metrics checklist
• “number of...” [ # ]
1. Does the metric • “average number of...” [avg ]
begin with a number? • “percent of...” [ % ]
• “per week” [ ___/wk ]
2. Is there a time basis? • “per month” [ ___/mo]
• “per user” [ ___/user]
3. Is there an object • “per user per week” (fancy!)
basis? • Examples: per user, per session,
or by interaction or item
* not required, but super-helpful
(messages per file, emails
per thread)
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90. Metrics checklist
a good metric... a great metric...
...measures the usage of your ...makes you look at all the
product by a person. The usage other metrics and say “none of
should be specific to features that those other numbers matter if
deliver value to your user. we donʼt get this right first.”
unhelpful vanity good better awesome
% of users % of users
% of new
total number who sign in who share a
users per
sign-ups of registered 3+ times a task 3+
week
users day, times a day,
per week per week
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95. Advanced topics
Conversion metrics Pirate Metrics - AARRR!
Cohort metrics
Instrumentation Acquisition
Activation
Retention
What should I be measuring?
(a few search terms) Referral
“Vanity Metrics” Revenue
“KPI”
“A/B Tests”
“Metrics for Pirates”
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96. Tools Landscape
ANALYTICS CONVERSION TESTING UNMODERATED
Google Analytics Unbounce TESTS WITH VIDEO
KISS Metrics Optimizely Usertesting.com
Mixpanel TryMyUI
Flurry Userlytics
LocalLytics WhatUsersDo
Stats Mix (just an api) Loop11
HEAT MAPPING MESSAGE RECALL MICRO USABILITY
Crazy Egg ClueApp Navflow
Click Tale FiveSecondTest Usabilia
Clicktest
Verify
Intuition HQ
UserZoom
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100. {Activity}
Make a narrative
We are _______________
Meet...
M V P with __________, ________ can...
using these features
we will measure
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101. A direct through-line
Users
1. BLAH
why
what Needs 2. BLAH
3. BLAH
how
(INSERT BUSINESS THINKING HERE)
Mary can...
Uses
Features
(CREATE SKETCHES,
WIREFRAMES & PIXELS)
This Week
User Stories
Themed Releases
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103. Patterns of work
1. Generate independently, discuss as a team
(3 people ideal)
2. Dump & Sort
(one item per Post-It, use Sharpie)
3. Sketch
(especially of people)
4. Work at the wall
5. Timebox!
(speed kills the censor and keeps you moving)
6. 2x2 organizing framework
(help decision-making when lots of items)
7. Quick decision-making techniques
(dot-vote, roman vote, stack rank)
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106. About LUXr
LUXr provides practical, hands-on tools for entrepreneurs
around the world. LUXr helps startups deliver products that
customers want, need and love to buy.
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Boxes Curriculum Residency Workshops
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worldwide. programs.
LUXr • 3435 Cesar Chavez
San Francisco, CA • 94110
info@luxr.co • http://luxr.co • twitter: @luxrco
Janice Fraser, Founder & CEO [janice@luxr.co • @clevergirl ]
Jason Fraser, Co-Founder & Operations Lead [jason@luxr.co ]
Kate Rutter, Co-Founder & Designer [kate@luxr.co • @katerutter ]
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